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I must have missed the back story on this engine. What combination was this Howard’s cam picked for?

The 4 door Chevelle’s have longer wheel bases, the frames do not interchange with 2 door cars. You can swap frames with any 2 door GM A body though. Just minor differences between them. Photo of brother and I painting our Chevelle in 1986. Also probably the last non SS Chevelle sighting before...

Me too!

1971 and 1972 Chevelle’s there is no way I know of to really document a SS 454 or a 307 Malibu that has been restored to make it look like a SS 454. It is most risky to pay big money for a high end rare 71 or 72 SS because they are much much harder to document without the full history of the...

First car was a 71 Chevelle, still have it. If you asked my how many Mopar’s I have, I could not answer, at least not without at least 15 minutes of counting. If you ask me how many Chevies I have. LOL That’s easy. I have one. Have had a lot of good times in our Chevelle. SBC 350s were at...

We have TF240 heads on a 440, and the Trick Flow Cam on a different 440. Both are 91 octane 11+ SCR street and strip combos. The TF cam even with 11+ compression is not a good fit for vacuum brakes with a 440, a stroker combo is closer to having enough vacuum. But you also could definetly pick...

Sure hope not! As long as they operate quietly Johnson’s usually do well. The Johnson’s that failed clattered the whole time, and were not set up that well. But still should not have failed. One axle was half slid out, but a second axle slid all the way out and the roller fell into the...

I read your failure that lost 2 link bars, that sucks. Short travels are much harder in parts than a regular lifter. I attached Hylift Johnson’s explanation. They are not like a solid lifter. Those Morel’s were a poor choice on your engine, but it still should have lasted longer than 2k...

Sorry I missed some of your earlier posts. My brother updated me a bit, I understand correctly your doing a Bullet cam working through Tim and using the Everwear gear. I just got through helping with an engine that has a small Bullet cam with regular Morel lifters. The lifters were very noisey...

I did mention short travels do not last very long, that goes for any short travel. Your better off with a SR lifter set up. There may be a lifter that is best for your application and needs. What are the rest of the specs on the cam? Whose cam profile is it? What spring package? Every...

I help folks with a lot of cams, different makes and mfg’s, and don’t really expect there will ever be a best lifter that works for everything. It just seems different lifters work better for different applications and cam profiles. One size does not fit all with HR lifters. Gaterman lifters...

210 to 215 is a 93 octane range in a 505. Judging by those compression numbers and the .050” cams specs I am going to guess that is a custom XFI HR cam. If that is correct, those cams are very aggressive off the seat and pump a lot of compression for there size. The 240 heads have very...

With that small of a cam like a 702 you could think about one of the smaller high energy SR cam. They are quite a bit less aggressive than a tight lash Extreme energy SR. The high energy are not real powerful cams, but they are pretty durable SR cams. If you broke in the 702 cam with the...

I am in complete agreement with Powell also. The lifter machining is terrible on new lifters. It takes 2 sets or 3 sets to find a good set of 16 that are usable. It is pathetic. The machining has gotten so bad that a lot of times I can spot face machining issues looking at photos on my small...

For what you could have done different, the easiest and cheapest option with current production parts is having a HFT cam Nitrided. That gives the cam an hard shell on the surface and allows the poor lifter machining to mate to the cam removing a minimal amount of the cams taper during the...